Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Alice Hirose appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alice. Bubble is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are transformation, versatility, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tetsuro Araki, Yū Irie, Masaki Nishiura, Alice Hirose helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Bubble (2022) as Makoto (voice) · Silent Tokyo (2020) as Nami Takanashi · Hell's Garden (2021) as Hojo Ran
Career snapshot
A Nutevio catalogue profile for Alice Hirose.
Films in Nutevio
5
2020–2022
Career length
2 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Bubble
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Silent Tokyo
Most frequent director
Tetsuro Araki
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tetsuro Araki
Most common genre
Science Fiction
2 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.2
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2020s
6.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Bubble, Hell's Garden, AI Amok — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.6
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Bubble, Hell's Garden, AI Amok.
Most productive era
2020s
5 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2020s |
|---|---|
| Action | 6.51 film |
| Thriller | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | 6.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2020AI Amok
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kumi Okuse.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2022Bubble
7.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Makoto (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
5 of 5 films
as Makoto (voice)
Directed by Tetsuro Araki
as Hojo Ran
Directed by Unknown
Directed by Masaki Nishiura
as Nami Takanashi
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Makoto (voice)
Bubble (2022)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Makoto (voice) gives Alice Hirose a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hojo Ran
Hell's Garden (2021)
Performance score7.0
Hell's Garden asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hojo Ran is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kumi Okuse
AI Amok (2020)
Performance score7.0
AI Amok asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kumi Okuse is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman
Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman (2020)
Performance score7.0
Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Makoto (voice)
Start here. Bubble is the clearest statement of what Alice Hirose does — accessible, 101 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Alice at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
AI Amok (2020)
Keeps the science fiction register of Bubble but asks for a colder reading of it.
Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman (2020)
A deliberate change of key after AI Amok — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Silent Tokyo (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Hell's Garden (2021)
Same director as Silent Tokyo, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tetsuro Araki
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BubbleYū Irie
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AI AmokMasaki Nishiura
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku WomanSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Bubble
as Makoto (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Bubble
as Makoto (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Bubble
as Makoto (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Silent Tokyo
as Nami Takanashi
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Bubble
as Makoto (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Alice Hirose has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Science Fiction Legend
Awarded
2 catalogue titles in science fiction, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Bubble
as Makoto (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Silent Tokyo
as Nami Takanashi
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bubble
as Makoto (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Silent Tokyo
as Nami Takanashi
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hell's Garden
as Hojo Ran
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Hell's Garden
as Hojo Ran
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Bubble
as Makoto (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Bubble
as Makoto (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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